Excuses for not Posting in a Week & Awesome/Shitty Beer

Whoa. It's been a week since the last 5 & Dime. I couldn't be more sorry about that. We'll try not to let that happen again. Jered and I will give you a collaborative top 5 excuses and you can pick which one makes you feel better about it. Hell, if the other contributers have anything good, go on and add it up.

Top 5 Excuses

1. The discovery/exploration of a secret underground tunnel
2. 6 day Heroin binge
3. Grease Party + Fifty Pound Rooster
4. Obama's Elitism
5. Writing/releasing a full length Rock Opera entitled One on One Against the World, Left-Handed: The Basketball Jones Story
   

Also, today we're going to try something different: a combo Dime. We're doing a Top 5 awesome beers SLASH Top 5 shitty beers. See, when you make the rules, you can bend them as such.

Bennett's Top5 Awesome/Shitty Beer

1. Guinness
2. Yuengling
3. Sea Dog Blue Paw Wild Blueberry Wheat Ale
4. Fat Tire Mothership Wit
5. Sam Adams Cherry Wheat

1. Schlitz
2. Gulden Draak
3. Pabst Blue Ribbon
4. Beer 30
5. Natty Ice (Chad bro.... chiiiiiillll)

Jered's Top5 Awesome/Shitty Beer

1. Guinness
2. Sea Dog Blue Paw Wild Blueberry Wheat Ale
   
3. Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat
4. Newcastle
5. Red Stripe

1. A Le Coq Imperial Extra Double Stout
2. Milwaukee's Best
3. Schmidts
4. Colt 45
5. Star

Adam (aka Dadric) Beers

1. Newcastle Brown
2. Young's Double Chocolate Stout
3. Pabst Blue Ribbon
4. Warsteiner
5. Lindeman's Framboise Lambic

1. Busch Light (Dubuque water)
2. Olde English 800
3. Pabst Blue Ribbon
4. Beer 30
5. Natural Ice

Top 5 Sodas/Top 10 Movies

I had to introduce someone to Ghostbusters last night. Yes. Introduce. Yes, that movie was made in 1984. I know, I know. I don't get it. During the credits, my friend was impressed that Dan Aykroyd (and Harold Ramis) wrote it. I mentioned that Harold Ramis wrote Stripes, also. Didn't see that. Seriously, two of my top tens not even on the radar. Then I find out Wayne's World wasn't on her list either. Are. You. Kidding? Apparently someone was raised by wolves. So, a Top Ten must ensue for certain feral peoples. Oh and top 5 sodas just sort of happened. Good call on Jered's part, though.

Bennett's Top 5 Sodas

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Bennett's Top 10 Movies

1. Ghostbusters 1 & 2
2. Wayne's World
3. Stripes
4. Brick
5. Spaceballs
6. Revenge of the Nerds
   
7. Rushmore
8. Fletch & Fletch Lives
   
9. Network
10. Seven Samurai

Jered Top 5 Sodas

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5. 

Jered's Top 10 Movies

1. better off dead
2. pulp fiction
3. waynes world
4. o brother where art thou
5. the godfather
6. apocalypse now
7. a clockwork orange
8. the shining
9. the wizard of oz
10. chuck & buck

Concert Faux Pas & Cartoon Characters

Today I'm going to the Cursive show for the Mission Creek Music Festival. I've seen Cursive three times now and I can't believe how awesome it is every time. I'm also there to check out my friends in The Poison Control Center and they always put on a high energy show. In discussing my glee with friends, and talking to them about concerts they're attending this weekend, we decided there are some things you just should not do at a concert. J and I collaborated on this one since we had mostly the same list. Could that mean that these are Universal Laws like gravity, motion and shotgun? Maybe not, but you should treat them like they are.

• Top 5 Concert Faux Pas

1. Wearing the band's t-shirt to the show
2. Requesting Free Bird (unless the band REALLY deserves it)
3. Getting busted with a joint during the second band of a 5 act show (ahem..)
   
4. Starting the mosh pit during a ballad (you might think it's funny, but everyone clearly hates you)
5. Crowd surfing... just no
6. Honorable Mention: No one wants to watch you bang your gf/bf during the show except the sociopaths who have to live vicariously through you. I know your spot is good but either step into a room or keep it in your pants. Srsly...

Brittany's Top 10 Concert Faux Pas

1. singing along when they don't know the lyrics. example: when a band says, 'this is a new song, we've never played it' and some fools are singing along
2. when you bump into someone and they freak out, you're at a show deal
3. 'stop talking and play.' really?
4. when the drummer doesn't have a mic and just shouts at the crowd the whole time
5. slam dancing. really?
6. wearing the bands shirt to the show... but the band enjoys it... fuss
7. announcing city name to a small crowd
8. local bands announcing where they are from
9. opening bands...
• eating touring bands catering
• asking the crowd to move up
• trying to play way too many songs
• sound checking their gear and walking off the stage, then making a theatrical entrance back on stage
• rap rock
10. talking

[this was compiled by: shedd, matt grabe, and austin]

Bennett

• Top 10 Cartoon Characters

1. Tek Jansen
2. Mojo Jojo
3. Casey Jones
4. Cheese
5. Powdered Toast Man
6. Rocko
7. Shin-Chan
8. Marvin the Martian
   
9. Nathan Explosion
10. Animaniacs
    

Jered

• Top 10 Cartoon Characters

1. Bugs Bunny
2. The Powerpuff Girls
   
3. SpongeBob SquarePants
   
4. Ren and Stimpy
   
5. Space Ghost
   
6. Daria
   
7. Peter Griffith
   
8. Beavis and Butthead
9. Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
10. The Hair Bear Bunch

5 Country Songs/10 Tom Waits Songs

Alright folks... here are my top five and dime country and Tom Waits songs. Feel free to post yours!

Jered's Top Five Country Songs:

1. Johnny Cash - Tennessee Flat Top box
   
2. David Allen Coe - You Never Even Called Me By My Name
3. Marle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee
4. Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach, TX
5. Hank Williams Jr - Family Tradition

Jered's Top Ten Tom Waits' Songs:

1. Ol' 55
2. Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
3. Virgina Avenue
4. Cold Water
5. Tom Traubert's Blues
6. Better Off Without A Wife
7. I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With you
8. Martha
9. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
10. Rosie

--Bennett--
I can contribute a few country songs but I can't even start the Tom Waits away from my iTunes. Here goes nothing.

Top Five Country Songs:

1. Johnny Cash - Devil's Right Hand
   
2. Kentucky Headhunters - Dumas Walker
3. Johnny Cash - Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart
   
4. Hank Williams Jr - Family Tradition
5. Clint Black - State of Mind

Top Ten Tom Waits Songs:

1. Tom Traubert's Blues
2. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
3. Invitation to the Blues
4. Emotional Weather Report
5. Please Call Me, Baby
6. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six
7. Everything Goes to Hell
8. $29.00
9. Romeo is Bleeding
10. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
    

1st Set of Tops

Here are the first set of tops. If you want to contribute, just add it on the comments!

Bennett

• Top 10 Formative Albums (aka albums you listened to in your teenage years/growing up)

1. Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2. Further Seems Forever - The Moon is Down
3. Tenacious D
4. Thursday - Full Collapse
5. Cake - Fashion Nugget
6. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
7. Juliana Theory - Emotion is Dead
8. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
9. Bright Eyes - Don't Be Frightened of Turning the Page
10. Dashboard Confessional - So Impossible

• Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Albums

1. Punk Goes Pop
2. mewithoutYou - A --> B Life
3. Rage Against the Machine
4. Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
5. Charles Manson - LIES

• Top 5 Rap/Hip-hop Albums

1. Sage Francis - Personal Journals
2. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
3. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
4. Non-Prophets - Hope
5. Dick Loars - All Hot Nothing Not Hot

• Top 5 Country Albums

1. Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
2. Garth Brooks - No Fences
3. Clint Black - Greatest Hits
4. [so I hit a wall... big deal]
   
5. 
   

• Top 5 Cover Songs

1. Cake - I Will Survive
2. Copeland - Another Day in Paradise
3. Further Seems Forever - Bye, Bye, Bye (not even kidding)
4. Guns N Roses - Look at your Game Girl
5. Final Fantasy - This Modern Love
   

• Top 5 Party Songs

1. Ghostland Observatory - Piano Man
2. Ghostland Observatory - Stranger Lover
3. Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City
4. The Dismemberment Plan - Girl O'Clock
5. Cap'n Jazz - Take On Me

Jered

• Top 10 Formative Albums (aka albums you listened to in your PRE-teenage years/growing up)

1. beastie boys - license to ill
2. run dmc - raising hell
3. public enemy - takes a nation of millions
4. led zeppelin - iv
   
5. the doors - the best of the doors
6. nwa - straight outta compton
7. beatles - sgt peppers
8. michael jackson - thriller
9. guns n roses - appetite for destruction
10. prince - purple rain
    

• Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Albums

1. fun lovin' criminals - come find yourself
2. ost - o brother where art thou
3. the transplants - the transplants
4. tom waits - discog
5. rem - automatic for the people

• Top 5 Rap/Hip-hop Albums

1. dr dre - the chronic
2. run dmc - raising hell
3. ll cool j - bigger and deffer
4. jurassic 5 - quality control
5. public enemy - the enemy strikes black

• Top 5 Country Albums

1. johnny cash - american recordings i
2. johnny cash - american recordings ii
3. johnny cash - american recordings iii
4. johnny cash - american recordings iv
5. johnny cash - american recordings v

• Top 5 Cover Songs

1. tesla - signs
2. the gourds - gin n juice
3. black crowes - hard to handle
4. snoop dogg - lodi dodi
5. johnny cash - hurt

• Top 5 Party Songs

1. rob bass & ez dj roc - it takes two
2. dj cool - let me clear my throat
3. house of pain - jump around
4. br5-49 - me n' opie
5. adam sandler - at a medium pace

brittany

formative albums... in no particular order

1. bright eyes- fevers and mirrors
2. hanson- middle of nowhere
3. dashboard- places you have come to fear the most
4. death cab- transatlanticism
5. rilo kiley- the execution of all things
6. the cardigans- super extra gravity
7. noise ratchet- til we have faces
8. john vanderslice- pixel revolt
9. third eye blind- third eye blind
10. u2- the joshua tree

guilty pleasures

1. hanson- this time around
2. nelly furtato- loose
3. justin timberlake- future sex love sounds
4. blink 182- dude ranch
5. whispertown 2000- living a dream

rap/hip hop

1. saul williams- the rise and liberation of niggy tardust
2. saul williams- saul williams
3. sage francis- sick of waging war
4. jay z- the gray album
5. outkast- the love below

country

1. johnny cash live at folsom prison
2. bonnie raitt- luck of the draw
3. reba- greatest hits volume ii
4. garth brooks- no fences
5. the elected- me first

covers

1. noise ratchet- crush
2. alive in wild paint- good morning joan
3. jeff tweedy- true love will find you in the end
4. the shins- we'll become...
5. jenny lewis with the watson twins- handle me with care

party songs

1. the cardigans- lovefool
2. ghostland observatory- piano man
3. rilo kiley- breakin up
4. deee lite- groove is in the heart
5. kylie minogue- can't get you out of my head